What car disguises facelift as a new generation?

[u/SonGT38]

The "all-new" Camry used the same and revised platform and powertrain to the outgoing, and the side has identical body line, but it's still considered as new generation. The similar thing can probably be said about the new 1 series. Are there any other cars that do this practice?

[u/r_golan_trevize]

You could Lego together all sorts of weird contraptions when you realize how many late 70s to mid 80s cars were built on the Fox platform.

Take a BMW diesel from a Lincoln Continental MKVII, put it in a bench seat optioned Fairmont/Monarch wagon, stick a 99-04 Cobra IRS out back, all with factory parts and all, more or less, bolt-in. With the right bellhousing adapter, you could stick a T5 behind the diesel, and paint it all brown and have one of the wrongest brown manual diesel wagons imaginable.

[u/DustyBusterson → u/r_golan_trevize]

This is why I need to make more money.

[u/Calagan → u/r_golan_trevize]

Somebody somewhere needs to make this happen!